Rev. Frederic Henry de Winton

The Times, Thursday, Apr 28, 1932                         DEATHS

de WINTON - On April 25, 1932, peacefully, at 53 Marshall Avenue, Bognor, FREDERIC HENRY DE WINTON, late Archdeacon of Colombo, aged 80.

The Times, Friday, Apr 29, 1932                       OBITUARIES

The Rev. F. H. de Winton     The Rev. Frederic Henry de Winton, formerly Archdeacon of Colombo, died at Bognor on April 25 at the age of 80.     The second son of the Ven. Henry de Winton, Archdeacon of Brecon, and nephew of the late Mr. Thomas de Winton, of Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire, he was born on January 19, 1852.     From Uppingham School he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, and obtained a first class in Moderations and a second in Lit. Hum.     In 1876 he was elected to a Leoline Fellowship at Jesus college, which he held till his death.     He went out to Ceylon in 1879 as domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Colombo (Dr. R. S. Copleston) and held various parochial charges there.     He was Archdeacon of Colombo from 1902 to 1925, and examining chaplain from 1888 to 1926 to the Bishop and his successor, Dr E. A. Copleston.     Mr. de Winton was unmarried.

The Times, Tuesday, May 03, 1932                 OBITUARIES

The Rev. F. H. de Winton     The Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, writes: --     The death of the Rev. F. H. de Winton, Senior Fellow of Jesus College, noticed in your issue of April 28, breaks a link with the academic past of Oxford.     He was one of the old and rapidly disappearing Life Fellows, but of a very special kind.     Sir Leoline Jenkins, formerly Principal of Jesus and afterwards Judge of the Admiralty Court, says in his will in 1685: "It is but too obvious that the persons in Holy Orders employed in his Majesty's fleet at sea and foreign plantations are too few."     Accordingly he established at Jesus College two fellowships whose holders should serve as his clergy "in any of his Majesty's fleets or in his Majesty's plantations" under the direction of the Lord High Admiral and the Lord Bishop of London respectively.     De Winton was the last of these.     He was elected to a Missionary Fellowship in 1876, just in time, for in the following year by the reforming zeal of the Oxford and Cambridge Universities Commission these rather unusual Fellowships were abolished, with the usual proviso saving the rights of existing holders.     Few of the "existing rights" saved by the Commission of 1877 can have lasted for 56 years.     Celon was the "plantation" to which de Winton devoted his life.     For half a century he was a well-known and well-loved, if rather eccentric, figure in Colombo, and when he retired to England a few years ago he left behind many friends, and no enemies.     He kept in touch with the college by occasional residence, by ever-welcome attendance at "Gaudys" and other celebrations, and by a continual interest in it's doings.